Meta AI Fumbles Latest Tech Demo At Meta Connect 2025
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A very public failure of Meta’s new AI technology occurred recently at Meta Connect 2025.
As covered by Kotaku, while attempting to present the technology’s adaptability and versatility through the example of helping you make a recipe in your kitchen once it is aware of the ingredients you have available to you, the AI completely flubbed the demonstration. Hosted live on stage by YouTuber Jack Mancuso, a series of very obviously labeled bottles and ingredients lay out on the counter. On the “random” suggestion of Mark Zuckerberg, Mancuso tried to prompt the AI to give him a recipe to make a Korean-inspired steak sauce (which Mancuso bizarrely claimed to have never made before, despite Kotaku finding Instagram proof to the contrary). Instead, the AI attempted to list all of the ingredients needed to make the recipe, was interrupted, went silent, and eventually convinced itself that Mancuso had followed a series of undeclared steps and was ready to shred a pear as the final ingredient, which he did not have.
Despite attempts to prompt the technology to give him a list of instructions, it remained broken, forcing Mancuso to pivot back to Zuckerberg, both adopting the same impossible excuse of “wifi problems.” Kotaku’s reporting makes clear that the recipe the “AI” was attempting to have Mancuso follow was pulled directly from the internet and involved no actual thinking or consideration on the machine’s part. They emphasize, correctly, that like most other AI products, Meta’s latest foray is not anything close to AI. Instead, it is a predictive text engine that endlessly sorts information, and there is no reason to use it to help make a recipe in a kitchen when multiple other, easier vectors of approach are available. Hopefully, embarrassing public failures like this help wake tech companies up to the limitations of the eggs they continue to pile into their baskets.
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Source(s): Kotaku
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